Ros Family History
Ros Name Meaning
Catalan: nickname for someone with blond hair or a fair
complexion, from Latin russus.Swedish:
ornamental name from ros ‘rose’.Slovenian: nickname
from the dialect adjective ros ‘russet’, hence denoting a
person with russet-colored hair. Compare Rus 2.Slovenian
(Roš): probably also a nickname from roš, a
reduced form of rovaš ‘stick split lengthwise’, which was
used to keep accounts (by scoring or making notches in the
wood).Cambodian or other Southeast Asian: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ros
Name Distribution of Ros Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ros families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ros families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ros Family Origin
Ros Emigration Information (US)
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Ros Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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